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the plants. In rocky, elevated soils that cannot be ploughed or trenched 

 nor can allow of proper sized holes being made with the spade 

 one or two years growth, or such a? have small roots, can 



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: when exposed to severe winds, plants above one foot in heio-ht 

 are loosened ,n the soil, and never prosper. For the purposes of ^nem 

 or extensive works of forest planting, the best sizes of the plants'of the 

 fferent species of trees at the period of transplanting- to their timber 

 sites, may be thus enumerated : 



1st. NON-REPRODUCTIVE OR RESINOUS TREES. 

 Pmus abies, common spruce fir, from . . 6 to 2Q inches. 



alba, white spruce. 

 rubra, red spruce. 

 nigra, black spruce. 

 sylvestris, Scotch fir. 



larici*, Corsican fir .24 



uncinata, hooked fir . 18 



pumila, upright coned fir . ." 12 



Mughus, nodding coned fir. 

 pungens, prickly coned fir. 



Banksiana, Hudson's Bay fir, in pots* . 24 



Pallasiana, Prof. Pallas's fir. 



pinaster, cluster fir . . 6 20 



pinea, stone pine . . . 6 18 



maritima, sea-side pine . , . 6 18 



Halepensis, Aleppo pine . . 6 18 



inops, Jersey pine . . . 6 18 



resinosa, pitch pine . . 6 18 



variabilis, various leaved pine. 

 Clanbrassiliana, dwarf pine. 

 tfsda, frankincense pine, in pots. 

 serotina, fox-tail pine. 



rigida, three-leaved pine . . 6 20 



palustris, swamp pine, in pots. 

 longifolia, long leaved pine. 



Cembra, Siberian pine . .6 18 



strobus, Weymouth . . . 12 36 



excelsa, Bhotan, in pots. 

 cedrus, Cedar of Lebanon, in pots. 

 deodara, Indian cedar. 



pendala, black larch. . . 6 24 



microcorpa, red larch. 

 larix, common larch. 



Caiiadensis, hemlock spruce . . 9 20 



dumosa, bushy pine, in pots. 

 taxifolia, yew leaved, in pots. 



picea, silver fir . . . 9 20 



spectabilis, purple coned, in pots. 



balsamea, balm of Gilead . 9 20 



Fraseri, double balsam, in pots. 

 adunca, crooked. 

 Romana, Roman. 



* By this is meant such sorts of forest-trees as from their rarity, or recent introduction of 

 very small quantities of their seeds, have rendered the utmost care and caution necessary 

 in the hrst attempt to cultivate them here ; by and by, instead of being raised in pots the 

 seeds may be found to succeed equally well in the open ground. 



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